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ALI Group Cited in Proposals to Reform and Modernize ECA

U.S. District Court Judge Paul W. Grimm of the District of Maryland will become the director of the Bolch Judicial Institute effective Jan. 1, 2023.

Duke University has received a $5.46 million gift from Rick Horvitz ‘78 and his wife Erica Hartman-Horvitz to permanently endow a Duke Law School program

ALI-Convened Group Issues Proposals for Electoral Count Act Reform

Clifford Wallace, chief judge emeritus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, received the 2022 Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law on March 18.

Elder Christofferson said Wallace, “appeals to the innate goodness in all of us, and with a smile, persuades us that we can do better and follow the better path.”

Dellinger, the Douglas B. Maggs Professor Emeritus of Law, had been member of the Law School's faculty since 1969 and served as acting U.S. solicitor general and assistant attorney general during the Clinton administration.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke about his new book, "The Authority of the Court and the Perils of Politics."

The American Law Institute Dec. 20 elected new members who will bring their expertise to ALI’s work of clarifying the law through Restatements, Principles, and Model Codes.

The notion of expanding the Supreme Court has been gaining traction lately, thanks in part to the court's distinct rightward tilt, its increasingly partisan character, and its apparent hostility to abortion rights.